Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game

Psymonkee · 22 Mar 2015 at 11:28

^^~Bingo!

Warbie · 22 Mar 2015 at 12:33

Ekim said:
I think that is in reference to a dice roll so you can use an action dice for that ability assuming the action dice has the correct value on it.

i.e If the card has (4+) on it you need to use an action dice with the value 4,5 or 6

Cheers for the reply. I think I'm being real dense here tho as I still don't know what you mean! You're saying you'd need to roll a 4 or more for the skill to happen?

Ekim · 22 Mar 2015 at 12:47

Warbie said:
Cheers for the reply. I think I'm being real dense here tho as I still don't know what you mean! You're saying you'd need to roll a 4 or more for the skill to happen?

Yeah, if you want to use that skill you need to spend one of your action dice that has the value on the card or greater.

Warbie · 22 Mar 2015 at 13:17

Cheers mate. makes sense.

//edit

My copy came without a police station. It was easy enough to draw one to tide us over but wasn't ideal. I emailed Plaid Hat Games when we noticed on saturday and they've already shipped one

FrenchTart · 29 Mar 2015 at 21:26

Is Amazon the cheapest place to get this? I'm really trying to resist spending money on board games but this is so tempting...

Xinn · 18 Apr 2015 at 16:26

Would this be worth picking up for 3 players or is it better with 4-5?

matt0r · 18 Apr 2015 at 20:17

Xinn said:
Would this be worth picking up for 3 players or is it better with 4-5?

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/150376/dead-winter-crossroads-game

there is a poll there so you can see what peeps think of how it plays with various people.

Xinn · 19 Apr 2015 at 11:45

matt0r said:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/150376/dead-winter-crossroads-game

there is a poll there so you can see what peeps think of how it plays with various people.

Ah nice one, I didn't realise you could view the pole results that detailed on bgg. Thanks.

matt0r · 21 Apr 2015 at 10:26

FrenchTart said:
Is Amazon the cheapest place to get this? I'm really trying to resist spending money on board games but this is so tempting...

Why are you resisting? Bad experiences?

Xinn said:
Ah nice one, I didn't realise you could view the pole results that detailed on bgg. Thanks.

Ah no worries mate

i live outside the UK at the moment, but I am popping back for a holiday and have a copy to play. My first few games will also be with 3, when I've had a few games i shall post what i think.

FrenchTart · 25 Apr 2015 at 16:26

Only resisting as I have far too many board games and lately my time to play them is limited. I've managed to sell most of the ones I don't play but still have an almost unused copy of Star Craft I need to get rid of really.

This game looks particularly awesome though.

FrenchTart · 29 Apr 2015 at 09:45

I was just about to give in and buy this but I see they've randomly put it up by £10 on Amazon, sigh.

Ekim · 29 Apr 2015 at 10:07

£43.94 here after shipping costs:

http://meeplescorner.co.uk/Board-Games/Dead-of-Winter-Crossroads-Plaid-Hat-Games

This is useful for finding best prices on games:

http://boardgameprices.co.uk/

Psymonkee · 29 Apr 2015 at 10:20

https://www.gameslore.com/acatalog/Games_Cooperative_Games_225.html#aPHGDOW001

Slightly cheaper on the above link though!

Ekim · 29 Apr 2015 at 10:24

£47.94 from Games Lore after you account for shipping costs.

Psymonkee · 29 Apr 2015 at 10:51

Yeah, remembered that after I posted

Still the owner is nice and friendly which had gotta count for something!

FrenchTart · 29 Apr 2015 at 11:54

Awesome, cheers for that

Now to re-convince myself to purchase it all over again

edit: That didn't take long. Ordered.

Psymonkee · 29 Apr 2015 at 12:04

FrenchTart · 5 May 2015 at 13:56

Hoping to play this tomorrow with a few friends but Meeples Corner have sent the package via Yodel and unsurprisingly Yodel have messed up the delivery. Sigh. Hopefully it'll arrive in work tomorrow and I'll be able to play it but I'd have preferred at least a day to look at the rules and get all the bits ready. I've watched a play through video and presuming I can download the rule book hopefully that'll be enough.

benneh · 11 May 2015 at 19:42

matt0r said:
Why are you resisting? Bad experiences?

Ah no worries mate

i live outside the UK at the moment, but I am popping back for a holiday and have a copy to play. My first few games will also be with 3, when I've had a few games i shall post what i think.

I was one of the 3

, and can report that it's a rather fun game!. Definitely an involving board game. It's very tactical once you get into it/understand the rules. With lots of room for team work, or back stabbery!

..

Quite a well balanced game too. There are a lot of rules to follow, but it's very rewarding, and quite quick to get the hang of. Our first game lasted 3-4 hours for instance (which someone won real sneakily!, with an out of the blue secret objective), but our second, once we'd become familiar with the rules, lasted about 1.5 hours. We also tried a harder/longer objective, which was awesome. I got exiled, which added a whole new angle to the gameplay.

Anyway, buy it. Definitely the best board game I've played so far. More than your money's worth, imo.

Ekim · 12 May 2015 at 10:02

Played it twice now and it hasn't gone down too well with the group I normally play with. I think because we had played who hadn't played before in both games it took much longer than everyone wanted.

Will try again with 3 (or 4 at most) people, with everyone knowing how to play and see if it goes down any better.